Arcadia (1993) de Tom Stoppard : la passion du bilan by Nicole Boireau

“…Stoppard combines the comedy of manners form with the whodunit to build a trompe-l’œil play, based on a dual time structure, involving both literary figures from the past and present-day intellectuals, who try to work out the enigmas at the heart of the play. …”
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Les quatre éléments dans « Karain » de Joseph Conrad : du mythe au manque by Catherine Delmas

“…The four elements are subservient to Conrad’s imaginary vision, whose purpose was to make his reader hear, feel, and see the truth “below the surface of the visible universe” (The Nigger of the Narcissus), “disclosed in a moment of illusion” (Lord Jim) as in a trompe-l’œil. The truth is also that of a metaphysical void corresponding to the epistemological break at the turn of the century and the loss of faith and ideals.…”
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« Who’s there ? » by Jean-Pierre Richard

“…Autour de la question du père, et parfois en trompe-l’œil — entre absence et présence, entre responsabilité morale et déterminisme social — , Gaines et Wideman s’interrogent sur la place du sujet humain dans l’Histoire.…”
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Rome à la campagne : les décors en pierre de la villa de la Grande Boussue à Nouvelles (Mons, Belgique) by Catherine Coquelet, Roland Dreesen, Éric Goemaere, Éric Leblois, Marie-Thérèse Raepsaet-Charlier

“…These shapes are underlined by straight or curved rods in white marble or Pierre de Meuse, in order to produce a trompe-l’oeil effect. The figurative decorations described above were certainly located in the middle and upper parts of the revetments.Near this luxurious room, another small heated room was explored, from which some decorative elements made in Gris des Ardennes and in Mediterranean marbles were also collected. …”
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